Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...

Oral history.; Interview conducted March 21, 2004. John Frazier was born in Greenville, Mississippi. As a young boy, he was aware of racial conflict and became involved in the civil rights struggle early. Frazier started a Youth Chapter of the...

From the University Union and Student Activities Record Group. Microfilm of the Teacher's College News, Vol. 7, No. 10 from November 21, 1925. Columns includes "Ye Little Red School House"," "Ye Little Red School House": a comedy in two acts,"...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...

From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Special issue of the newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated November 21, 1963, distributed to report the massive boycott of Rich's department store in Atlanta, Georgia. ...

From the Columbus Riflemen, Company "C", First Regiment [Papers]. Letter from members of the Columbus Riflemen to Anna Banks; April 21, 1900. The members of the Columbus Rifleman report that the United Daughters of the Confederacy have set aside...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcript of a handwritten letter from Jan [Bhuyan] to Nancy and Joe Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses a letter she wrote to the Gazette in support of the civil rights movement. ...

From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Adda Dilts to Nancy Ellin, dated July 21, 1964. Discusses contributions of textbooks to freedom schools in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, including some that were given to the...

From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 21 June 1862, written from a camp near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...

From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Notes regarding a telephone conversation between Roy Reed of the Atlanta Bureau of the New York Times and Bill Minor of the New Orleans Times Picayune, dated June 21, 1966. Briefly discusses mob violence at...

From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 4, number 14 from 21 August 1928. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue...